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Festival Tours
Bring the Magic of IWFF and CINE to your town!

Festival Tours offer opportunities for your group or organization to host a screening of some of the International Wildlife Film Festival and Montana CINE's award-winning films. These films come from some of the most superb film and television producers in the world including National Geographic, BBC, CBC, Discovery, Nature, as well as many independent producers and production houses from every corner of the globe.

The selection of films for your Festival Tour will complement the International Wildlife Film Festival's mission: To promote awareness, knowledge and understanding of wildlife, habitat, people and nature, through excellent film, television and other media. The subjects of the films and television programs that become available for Festival Tours come from a broad range of categories including Television Program, Children's Program, Environmental Issues, Human Dimensions/Indigenous Peoples, and Music Videos.

The staff of the International Wildlife Media Center & Film Festival will work with you and your group to provide the best package of films for the audience that you want to reach.

Festival Tour hosts can create a unique event that specifically showcases the films or incorporates films into an existing local festival, event or special topic. Selected films often reflect relevant issues of your organization, your geographic region or may complement a specific theme, such as bears or endangered species. You may also wish to involve school groups by using films to enhance the educational experience of your event.

When using films that deal with particular topics or issues relating to your region, your organization or some other theme, you may want to consider inviting local or well-known experts (in biology, politics, economics, etc.) to answer questions from the audience or as part of a panel discussion following the screening. Search our EarthVision Media Library & Archive for titles >>

Public Community Events
The Festival Tour Host group chooses two or more hours of programming from film lists with brief synopses and then hosts a screening event. Our staff can then help you arrange a weekly series, a small one-time event, or a special event of some other format.

International Wildlife Media Center & Film Festival provides:

Selected programs on DVD
Publicity materials which may include posters, media coverage, brochures, etc.
Suggestions for outreach and sample press release
Consultation and guidance throughout the event planning process

Festival Tour Host must:

Promote the Tour as a Tour of the International Wildlife Film Festival and only use films that have been selected through the Tour process
Select a scheduled date (at least one month in advance)
Pay a $100 non-refundable fee to begin the Tour and event-planning process (applied to your final balance)
Reserve a location, venue or other site for your event
Rent or borrow video projection equipment (compatible with the venue's sound system)
Recruit volunteers to help with outreach and staffing of your event
Confirm final film selections with IWFF at least two weeks prior to the event (Please note that reservation of films is on a first-come, first-served basis)
Pay for all shipping and handling of DVD; IWFF will mail you the films you request once estimated shipping charges are received. You are directly responsible for shipping costs when returning the tapes to the IWFF
Pay $10 per preview in addition to shipping during selection process and return each preview tape within two weeks
For fundraising events, a ticket price may not be charged for the films directly. The host group may ask for a donation or charge an event ticket price. For free public screenings or conferences, the host pays a package coordination fee based on the number of hours of films screened

Rates (based on final selection of screened films to the public):

$250 for up to 2 hours
$400 for up to 4 hours
$500 for up to 6 hours
Additional programming is available upon request